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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Change Creed Eternity Fail Fall Law Manner Moral Opinion Table Tablet
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
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
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Both Different Fool Last Once Person Same Time Wise
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Argument Long Loser Sunset Use
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Absolute Appeal Appear People Redemption Refuge Treason
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule

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