“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.