The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.

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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

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People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!

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