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Men are blind in their own cause.
Men are blind in their own cause.
 Ask you what provocation I have had?
 The strong antipathy of good to bad.  
 Ask you what provocation I have had?
 The strong antipathy of good to bad. 
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
 Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
 [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere read more 
 Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
 [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.] 
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause read more
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.