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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Edmund Burke

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
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
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Mindset Religion Superstition
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Necessary
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
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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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Enemy Evil Goodness Oneself
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Evil Goodness Man Ourselves
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View

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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