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Every soil does not produce every material.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.

The whole mass of humanity ... marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

All money is essentially merchandize.