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A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
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A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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