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"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
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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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"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."
"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."
"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."
"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."
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