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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Art Creation Essential Man Religion Theory
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
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
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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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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Greatness Sin Yourself

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