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In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.

In such an admirable position of the New World, man has no other enemy than himself.
– Alexis de Tocqueville

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  2. Pure is honourable.Honourable is right.Right is lovely.Lovely is admirable.Admirable is excellent.Excellent is prasie worthy.Praise worthy is peace. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  3. 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
  4. Maxim 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries – Howard Tayler
  5. In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  6. everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure – Alexis de Tocqueville
  7. A whole nation cannot rise above itself. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  8. 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
  9. When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  10. The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  11. 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
  12. Egotism fears its own self. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  13. Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  14. 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
  15. The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  16. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  17. Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  18. Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends – Alexis de Tocqueville
  19. 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
  20. Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  21. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  22. 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
  23. America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  24. nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  25. I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God’s justice. – Alexis de Tocqueville
  26. In the midst of the apparent diversity of human affairs, a certain number of primary facts may be discovered, from which all others are derived. – Alexis de Tocqueville
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  28. the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. – Sun Tzu
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  30. -¦ the secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power. – Susan Jeffers
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  32. Dress for the position you want, not the position you have. – santosh inani
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  35. Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  36. Your life oppositions will position or disposition you in the best or worst way depending how you position or disposition your oppositions. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
  38. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! – William Shakespeare
  39. It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man. – VE Schwab
  40. A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard

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