Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.
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When men are pure, laws are useless when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
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Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtue shine and vice blush.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
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Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose.. The vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
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Ah, this is the constitution, he said. Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt
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That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface
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Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
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Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
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Each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.
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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people
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