Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
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