Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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