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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Aristocracy Contract Democracy Fanaticism Number Religious
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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Come Conduct Down God Grace Guide Know Our Outward Soul Voice
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Disputes Document Evasion History Opinion Stand
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Corrupt Inspirational Leadership Power Trend Work
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Both Future Live Past
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State

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