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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.

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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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Come Conduct Down God Grace Guide Know Our Outward Soul Voice
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real

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