Quote #30697
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control...
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately,...
Quote #13804
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little...
Quote #17939
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Quote #5315
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Quote #32276
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness,...
Quote #12639
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the...
Quote #24506
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.
Quote #2216
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises...
Quote #10961
Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.