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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny...
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room...
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The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves...
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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s...
Quote #25143
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of...
Quote #23495
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be...
Quote #3705
…exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul...