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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Edmund Burke

All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
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
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
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

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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