Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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