"Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
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“The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.”
“Health is the requisite after morality”
“The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.”
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“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”
“Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.”
“The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities.”
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“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”
“Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.”
“There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.”