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>These grand and shining actions that dazzle our eyes are represented by politics as the effects of grand designs, instead of the ordinary effects of humor and the passions. So the war of Augustus and Marc Antony which we attribute to the ambitions they had to make themselves masters of the world, was possibly only a consequence of jealousy.
~La Rochefoucauld "Moral Reflections"
>These grand and shining actions that dazzle our eyes are represented by politics as the effects of grand designs, instead of the ordinary effects of humor and the passions. So the war of Augustus and Marc Antony which we attribute to the ambitions they had to make themselves masters of the world, was possibly only a consequence of jealousy.
~La Rochefoucauld "Moral Reflections"