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Mind Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- I shall not fear to say that the doctrine of self-interest rightly understood seems to me of all the philosophic theories the most appropriate to…
- Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
- As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.
- So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for…
- A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which…
- Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have…
- The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
- I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
- The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without…
- Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs…
- Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original…
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- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
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