Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
THOMAS JEFFERSONWe never repent of having eat too little.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
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There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
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He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
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How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
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Never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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