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Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
– Alexis de Tocqueville

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  2. There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  3. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  4. Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life’s work. – David Petersen
  5. Today’s enemies can be your friends tomorrow. And today’s friends can be tomorrow’s enemies. – Suzy Kassem
  6. You can always make enemies of your friends,’ said Sumael. ‘Making friends of your enemies is harder labor. – Joe Abercrombie
  7. Great men tell the truth and are never believed. Lesser men are always believed, but seldom have the brains or the courage to tell the truth. – Kenneth Roberts
  8. the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can’t accept. – yassi tan
  9. everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
  10. A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  12. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  13. The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  14. All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  15. Sixty years is too brief a compass for man’s imagination. The incomplete joys of this world can never satisfy his heart. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  16. Egotism fears its own self. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  17. In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  18. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  19. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  20. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  21. What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  22. In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  23. Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  24. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  25. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  26. America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  27. nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  37. My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories. – Myron Uhlberg
  38. Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough. – Nikki Rowe
  39. Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all. – Hark Herald Sarmiento
  40. It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when friends become strangers, – Hayley Williams

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