We never repent of having eat too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSONI had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
More Thomas Jefferson Quotes
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It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
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Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none
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Nothing is troublesome that one does willingly.
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Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
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Never spend your money before you have it.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.
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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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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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The only security of all is in a free press.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
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