The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
NORM MACDONALDEnjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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I don’t really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it’s the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Few people love with the violence they hate.
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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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You can’t love your team without hating another team.
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It is vain to complain of fortune while we fail in policy and conduct.
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It is necessary to be tolerant, in order to be tolerated.
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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