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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

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

If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Other Power Presumption Tend
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
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
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
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
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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Art Criminal Despot Die Emancipate Excuse Last Nation Preacher Reformer
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men

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