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As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gr...more

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True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with mora...more

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...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.

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To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious orn...more