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• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events…
• Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
• Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
• It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
• How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
• War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
• If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
• Language makes infinite use of finite media.
• Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
• Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
• If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
• Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…

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