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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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