Quote #10

Wit is well-bred insolence.

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  1. The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful di…
  2. It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
  3. Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
  4. Man is by nature a political animal.
  5. Evils draw men together.
  6. Nature does nothing uselessly.
  7. It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend hims…
  8. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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