- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Equality
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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
- Own
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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
- Government
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If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- Having
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We never repent of having eaten too little.
- Good Opinion
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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
- Country
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Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
- Habitual
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- Body
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Hope
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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
- God
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Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
- Greatest Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Debarred
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- Nov 07, 2020