![As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters”; “[the barbarians’] poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism”; “the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous](/assets/img/quote-photos/as-long-as-mankind-shall-continue-to-bestow-more-liberal-applause-on-their-destro.jpg)
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