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- Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.
(Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet) - Robert Burton (1577 - 1640)
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
(Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.) - Alcuin (732 AD - 804 AD)
- The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
- Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951)
- Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.
- James Bridie
- A precedent embalms a principle.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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