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- Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other…
- Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can…
- And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
- It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault…
- Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but…
- What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can…
- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It…
- I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.…
- To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
- Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he…
- He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
- The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of…
- In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in…
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each…
- To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame…
- A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over…
- The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other…
- From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to…
- When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature…
- No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests.
- Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
- All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever…
- Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
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