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- But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without…
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
- Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
- No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical…
- Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being…
- There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity…
- He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which…
- Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all…
- In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
- The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.
- All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
- Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
- The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist…
- Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they…
- All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered,…
- In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of…
- I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle