Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us – never cease to instruct – never cloy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONKnowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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