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"If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men."
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"Politicians look for interests not people."
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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age

"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
Knowledge

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
Death

"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
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"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
Reading
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