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Thomas B. Macaulay has 125 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar…
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Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.
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Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
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Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
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One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters,…
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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until…
— Bernard Cornwell
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The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and…
— Ted Haggard
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area…
— Robert Greene
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Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
— Hesiod
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