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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
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
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social

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