What is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with envy, a man seeks to obtain pardon for excellences and merits from those who have none.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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