"It is the cause, not the death,..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.”
“For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.”
“If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.”