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“Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and l...”
“It was evidently quite obvious to a powerful intellect like his that the one essential condition for a healthy society was equal distribution of goods - which I suspect is impossible under capitali...”
“Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.”
“As God loves me, when I consider this, then every modern society seems to me to be nothing but a conspiracy of the rick, who while protesting their interest in the common good pursue their own inte...”
“...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the misery of others; and...”
“For as love is oftentimes won with beauty, so it is not kept, preserved, and continued, but by virtue and obedience.”
