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The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Pensées Diverses- The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Book XXIX: Of the Manner of Composing Laws, Chapter 16: Things to be Observed in the Composing of Laws
I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
Lettres Persanes (Persian Letters, 1721), No. 29. (Rica writing to Ibben)
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- ?UnattributedOften credited to Albert Einstein
Socrates470–399 BCII: xxxi. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἓν μόνον κακόν, τὴν ἀμαθίαν