“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.