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When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.


Henry Hazlitt

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WILLIAM HAZLITT He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or to...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
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