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- We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two…
- There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us…
- The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the…
- There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
- With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are…
- An injustice to one is a threat made to all
- Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
- Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master…
- If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always…
- No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak,…
- [The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread... and a thousand other things…
- The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good…
- Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
- When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.
- It is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another.
- Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
- To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
- I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.
- There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive…
- Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which…
- One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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