The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
EDMUND BURKEBut the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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