The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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