Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we...

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we...

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and...

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining...

Born for success he seemed, With grace to win, with heart to hold, With shining...

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

There is no knowledge that is not power

There is no knowledge that is not power

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when...

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds...

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds...

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it...

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it...