Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise… purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn’t be able to do that.
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