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"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all."
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"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead."
Education
"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
Man
"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding."
Man
"Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no."
Man
"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool."
Behavior
"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters."
People
"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting."
Danger
"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."
Law
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
Hope
"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them."
Law
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