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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it read more
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
Against stupidity the very gods fight in vain.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization.
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because read more
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
