The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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- Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
- We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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- Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.