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"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
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"Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you."
"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
"We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us."
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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."
"Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively by restraining our vices. Society encourages intercourse. Government creates distinctions."
"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."
"There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave."
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things."
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