Accepting Quote by Frederic Bastiat

“The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does…” quote by Frederic Bastiat — Download Open image

“The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.”

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

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Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

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It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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