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Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief…

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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. — Jean de la Bruyere
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,… — Charles Darwin
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save… — George Bernard Shaw
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his… — George Washington
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct — Aldo Leopold
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for… — George F. Kennan
If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct. — Confucius
When a wise man is advised of his errors, he will reflect on and improve his conduct. When his misconduct is pointed… — Gautama Buddha
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on… — Ernst Junger
Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct. — Confucius
At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good, and he was known to… — Josephus

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