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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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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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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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