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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. - [Statesmanship] Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. - [Change] Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - [Education] Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way. - [Inequality] Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. - [Government] Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. - [Science] From the point of view of morals, life seems to he divided into two periods; in the first we indulge, in the second we preach. - [Morality] Inquiry is fatal to certainty. - [Questions] Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. - [Law] Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. - [Morality] Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - [History] No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. - [Haste] One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - [Silence] Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. - [Science] The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. - [Love] Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. - [Truth]
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