"Spare when young, and spend when old."
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"Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?"
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"Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."
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"As often as we do good, we sacrifice."
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"Great talkers are little doers."
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"Passion governs, and she never governs wisely."
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"The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly."
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"Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery."
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"When men are employed they are best contented."
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"There is always room for the man of force."
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"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible."
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"How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?"
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"Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed."
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"Hope is an essential constituent of human life."
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"Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask."
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"Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half."
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"Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten."
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"I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
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"No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state."
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"Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt."
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