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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Edmund Burke

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
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
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
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
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
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity

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