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"The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong."
"Accept the ego of extraordinary people as they have achieved something but don't accept the ego of ordinary people."
"Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness."
"We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit."
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"On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government."
"For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible."
"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
"No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure."
"Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any discussion: you are rich and I am poor."
"It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle."
"Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom."
"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express."
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."
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