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Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.Criss Jami
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[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.George Bernard Shaw
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Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian, and without passion, the elegant and polite are dead. Allow both passion and courtesy into your life in equal measure, and be complete.Vera Nazarian
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If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos… .Alexander The Great
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Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.( In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)Ovid
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Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.Andrew Ashling
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You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.Greg X. Graves
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.Alexander The Great
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Do you ever read the scriptures?"" Every day, " I said enthusiastically, "not a moment passes that I don't have a quick read of Ieremias or dip into Ezekiel."She smiled, amused. "What a barbarian you are!Bernard Cornwell
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You didn't find any trace of her?" asked d' Arnot. // Tarzan shook his head. "None. In the jungle, I could have found her; but here —-here, in civilization, a man cannot even find himself.Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The veneer of civilization is exceedingly thinKarin Tansek