The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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They make solitude, which they call peace.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
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We accomplish more by prudence than by force. [Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
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It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
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The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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I am my nearest neighbour.
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Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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