When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity their talents in the construction of the state will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments not the guides of the people.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.
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