| Category | Quote | E-Mail this quote | | Confession | Nothing spoils a confession like repentence.
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| Democracy | In every well-governed stat wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
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| Humanity | It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
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| Ideas | To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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| Imortality | The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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| Justice | Justice is the sanction fo established injustice.
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| Law | The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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| People | People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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| Plagerism | When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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| Poverty | It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
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| Progress | Natives of the Fiji Islands kill their parents when they are old. In this way they assist progress, while we retard it by founding academies.
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