02c. 1763 ADTrue humility—the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
06c. 1763 ADManners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
07c. 1763 ADThe true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
08c. 1763 ADBy the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
09c. 1763 ADPrudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
11c. 1763 ADIf you can be well without health, you can be happy without virtue.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
12c. 1763 ADShe is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
13c. 1763 ADA statesman requires rather a large converse with men, and much intercourse in life, than deep study of books.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
14c. 1763 ADDelusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less because they are universal.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
17c. 1763 ADFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
18c. 1763 ADFree governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
21c. 1763 ADGovernment is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
24c. 1763 ADIf an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
