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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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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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King Principle Rebel Subject Tyranny
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion

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