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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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