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Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

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There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

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Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

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Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

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