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| Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. |
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| Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once |
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| Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. |
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| Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. |
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| But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end. |
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| Change in all things is sweet. |
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| Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids |
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| Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. |
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| Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues |
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| Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing |
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| Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal. |
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| Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. |
| Democracy; Equality; Politics |
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| Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. |
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| Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. |
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| Different men seek happiness in different ways and by different means. |
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| Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. |
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| Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. |
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