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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

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
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
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.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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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Greatness Justice Policy
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Appearance Country Love Ourselves Patriot
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Constitution Forever Freedom Mindset Passion
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
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Money Statistics

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