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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.
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None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
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A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about a tragedy. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” The grandfather answered, “The one I feed.”
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Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
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Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
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You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
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Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned.
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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
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As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
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He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
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Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.
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The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
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You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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To know the world one must construct it.
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.
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A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.
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To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? [Lat., An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam Cui licet, ut voluit?]
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A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
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Do not expect justice where might is right.
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
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An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
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Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.
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