When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass in place of a lion
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My intention is not to provoke but to appease; not to assail but to defend; not to conquer but to protect my loyal subjects and hereditary pro...
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.
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People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
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Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.
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Celibacy is not hereditary.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and
courageously uses his intelligence.
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Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.
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It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
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