Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Benjamin Franklin

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El sabio no dice nunca todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice.

We become what we think about most of the time.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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