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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Turn over a new leaf.
Poets tell many lies.
Great men have great dogs.
The grand instructor, time.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
To innovate is not to reform.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Politics ruins the character.
Politics is no exact science.
Stalin's methods did not help.
Responsibility prevents crimes.
Justice, even if slow, is sure.
Speech is the mirror of action.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
The luxury of one's own opinion.
During war, the laws are silent.
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
Politics is not an exact science.
In war, only the simple succeeds.
No fool can be silent at a feast.
Learn to obey before you command.
Hounds follow those who feed them.
My personality doesn't interest me.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Where mystery begins religion ends.
Call no man happy until he is dead.
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
A coward's courage is in his tongue.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Iraq's government is at a stalemate.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
One source of the sublime is infinity.
I grow old, ever learning many things.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
When in doubt, do the courageous thing.
In all things let reason be your guide.
What thou seest, speak of with caution.
