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- We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and…
- It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great…
- Women are books, and men the readers be...
- I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
- Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
- The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
- Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
- Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
- After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
- This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and…
- A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is…
- god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the…
- If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present…
- On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as…
- A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds…
- A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in…
- A man in a passion, rides a mad horse.
- A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours.
- An old young man, will be a young old man.
- Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is…
- Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a…
- Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
- I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I…
- Every other sect supposes itself in possession of the truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong. Like a man traveling…
- I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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