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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.