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"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
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"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool."
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
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"Silence is the wit of fools."
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
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"Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness."
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"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"
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"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
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"The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public?"
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"A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man."
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"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
Determination

"There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt."
Religion

"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
Integrity

"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example."
Life

"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
War

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Life

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
Intelligence

"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."
Man

"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."
Benefit

"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
Nature
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