"I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict."
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"Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction."
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"I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures."
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"Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so."
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"We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far."
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"Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly."
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"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."
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"Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies."
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"Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand."
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"Saying is one thing and doing is another"
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"Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it."
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"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
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"It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason."
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"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."
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"The thing I fear most is fear."
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"No wind favors he who has no destined port."
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"There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves."
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"My trade and art is to live."
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"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state."
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"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't."
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