"But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader."
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"Falsehood is a perennial spring."
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"The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best."
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"Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding."
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"Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion."
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"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
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"In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars."
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"Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue."
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"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."
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"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."
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"A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world."
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"They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man."
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"You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition."
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"To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself."
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"Those who attempt to level never equalize"
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"Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue."
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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
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"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
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"A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering."
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"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."
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