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Thrift is a virtue which, like most others, must be practiced with discrimination.
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Plato felt, like Voltaire, that monarchy has this advantage over democracy, that in a monarchy the reformer has only to convince one man.
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Youth does not come twice to a man, a nation, a literature, or a language.
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We can only mourn over the absurdities for which men have died, and will.
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It is refreshing to find a philosopher who is wise enough to be happy.
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History, like nature, knows only continuity amid change. History makes no leaps.
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No great nation is ever conquered until it has destroyed itself.
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In philosophy all truth is old, and only error is original.
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Liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Statesmen who organize successful wars, just or unjust, are exalted by both contemporaries and posterity.
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Wealth itself, without the aid of philosophy, puts an end to puritanism and stoicism.
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Though there is drama in the details of strife, there is a dreary eternity in its causes and results; such history becomes a mental attendance upon the vicissitudes of power, in which victories and defeats cancel one another into a resounding zero.
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Men being by nature unequal in intelligence and scruple, democracy must at best be relative.
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To add one significant proposition to geometry is of greater value to humanity than to besiege or defend a city.
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Protestantism was the triumph of Paul over Peter; Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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Determinism does not imply indulgence; we must hold ourselves, and others, morally responsible for every action.
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Radicals do not grow up in palaces.
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Energy is only half of genius; the other half is harness.
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Under every system of economy men who can manage men manage men who can only manage things.
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Self-respect is the backbone of upright conduct.
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