"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered."
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"Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason."
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"Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others."
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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
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"That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it."
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"The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero."
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"Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess"
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"Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness."
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"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."
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"Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?"
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"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost."
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"Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant."
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"Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace."
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
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"One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?"
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"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
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"But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes."
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