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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
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
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
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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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Domination Greatness
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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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason

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