Alexander Hamilton:
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?

Miguel de Unamuno quotes

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
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Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
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If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.
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Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
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What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.
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Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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