Quotes 21 till 40 of 89.
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Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
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I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
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Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
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Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
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