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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.

Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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Evil Fate Goodness Man Politics Rule
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value

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