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I'm English, so obviously do not have a philosophy. I am a Christian, though, if you want to know about important beliefs.

— Adrian Goldsworthy

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It is common for those who flourish under any system to feel that the failure of others is deserved.

Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006)

Roman laws tended to be long and complex — one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006)

A man who keeps asking you to trust him is always hiding something.

Vindolanda (2017)

I would call it inhuman cruelty if that made sense, but it cannot because it was done by men and not monsters.

The Encircling Sea (2018)

Untrustworthy people tend to be selfish, which makes them simple to understand.

The Encircling Sea (2018)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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