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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived…
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the…
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the…
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had…
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what…
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