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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
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
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
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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End Goal Mindset Noble Oneself Weakness
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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Company Conversation Friendship Goodness Greatness Happiness Live
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
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
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human 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
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
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Born Death History Live Value

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

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