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> [Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah/whoever-entered-the-political-realm-had-first-to-be-ready-to-risk-his/)

[Hannah](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah/)

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> [There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plutarch/there-is-no-perfecter-endowment-in-man-than-political-virtue/)

[Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plutarch/)

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> [“Members of the educated elite upheld open-mindedness as the supreme political virtue but refused to debate their own idea of the good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-lasch/members-of-the-educated-elite-upheld-open-mindedness-as-the-supreme/)

[Christopher Lasch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-lasch/)

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> [My hope is that people begin to understand what the fiscal realities are - how economic virtue differs from political virtue -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-bills/my-hope-is-that-people-begin-to-understand-what-the-fiscal-realities/)

[Kurt Bills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-bills/)

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> [“To leave the household, originally in order to embark upon some adventure and glorious enterprise and later simply to devote one’s life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/to-leave-the-household-originally-in-order-to-embark-upon-some/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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