We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service.
~ Auguste Comte
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Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality.
~ Auguste Comte
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
~ Auguste Comte
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The dead govern the living.
~ Auguste Comte
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It should be noted that hatred is acquired as much by good works as by bad ones, therefore, as I said before, a prince wishing to keep his state is very often forced to do evil.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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