True contentment is a real, even an active, virtue not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.
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There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
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When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
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Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.
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To have a right to do a thing is not the same as to be right in doing it.
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