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- One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
- Marie Henri Beyle (1783 - 1842)
- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
- William Pitt
- The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
- Quintilian
- Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
- Aaron Hill
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
- Thomas Haliburton
- All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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