Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
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