One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEPeople crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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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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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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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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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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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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