The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
JONATHAN SWIFTWise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Every dog must have his day.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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