Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

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The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

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The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

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