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Every league has its own culture, its own identity, and its own type of football. It's very physical in England, but technical skill comes to the fore in Spain, where everybody wants to play beautiful football. The standards are very high in Germany, too; the teams are physically strong, very disciplined, and very well organised. ”
What I will miss the most about Guardiola? His obsession with the game and his knowledge, which makes you a better football player. ”
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ”
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. ”
Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated. ”
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. ”
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ”
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. ”
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. ”
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided. ”