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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less, because they are universal.
Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.
Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.
Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.
Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
If Stalin could only see us now, with the American Ambassador here, he'd turn in his grave.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.