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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
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
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
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
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Greatness Himself Mistake
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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