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"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
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"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."

"I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us."

"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way."
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"We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility."

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."
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