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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
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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Age Economics Forever Success
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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