"Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself."
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"Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]"
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"Taxes are the sinews of the state."
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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
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"The best interpreter of the law is custom."
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"All things are full of God."
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"The aim of justice is to give everyone his due."
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"In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful"
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"The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end."
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"Honor is the reward of virtue."
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"The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?"
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"Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it."
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"A community is like the ones who govern it."
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"Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live."
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"Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue."
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"There were poets before Homer."
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"A good orator is pointed and impassioned."
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"In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment."
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"We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory."
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"The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity."
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