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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
Right is not unlimited, but is limited by the laws.
Every night, whisper "peace" in your husband's ear.
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself
When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.
An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear
Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.