“Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.”
“We moralize among ruins.”
“It is useless to live on burned ruins.”
“A man is a god in ruins.”
“The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
“I’m fascinated by the ruins and remains of industrialisation.”
“One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.”
“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
“A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.”
“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.”
“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”
“I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity.”
“Politics ruins the character.”
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