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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Give Knowledge Only Philosophy Science Us Wisdom
Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Always Clever Good Nothing Often Say Thing
Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Activity Civilization Culture Freedom Oldest Promote
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Art Begin End Every Science Philosophy
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Dishonest Ill Other Ourselves Praise Speak Way
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Act Excellence Habit
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Begin Choas Civilization Die Grow Liberty Order
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Less Memory Mother Penetrate Reasoning Seat Sooner Spank Take Time Tired
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Civilization Family Nucleus One Liner
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Art Diplomacy Especially Half Nothing Say Speak When
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Desert Expand Ignorance Knowledge Mirage Our Receding
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Age Discovery Freedom Great Liberty Made Old Product Stress Youth
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Fera Hope Mind Most People Rather Think Trouble
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Anarchy As Complete Die Liberty Soon
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Afford Cannot Moralist Stateman
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Discovery Education Ignorance Our Own Progressive
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Faster Him Learn Men Teach Woe
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Adjust Code Condition Environment Moral Themselves
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Adequate Against Fanned Flame Hasty Income Magazine Mutual
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Become Dictatorship Liberty License Near
Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization Education Transmission

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