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«Thou dost not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed»
«The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.»
«Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation»
«The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed»
«We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.»
«Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.»
«The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.»
Author: Stendhal | About: Passion | Keywords: acquired, cautious, governed, intense, reasoned
«Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.»
«The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.»
«The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.»

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