The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
EDMUND BURKEThe first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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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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