If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.Edmund Burke
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Edmund Burke
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
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