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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.