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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

Charles Caleb Colton

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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Affirmation Fake Knowledge Negative
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Oppression Prosperity Submit
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Beginning Best End Himself Possible
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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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Allow Discipline Fear Myself
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Goodness Greatness Life Man
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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Fake Herself Nurse Rock Truth
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Book Friendship Goodness
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor

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