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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.
We should worship as though the deity were present.
The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.
The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
He has the most who is most content with the least.
Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
Rudeness luxuriates in the absence of self-respect.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.
The State is the Divine idea as it exists on Earth.
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.
Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical.
Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.
Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
We only understand that which already is within us.
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.
The content of your # character is your # choice.
The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.
He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything
The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.
I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
We lose all that time which we might employ better.
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?
Concepts become forces when they resist one another