The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONA society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
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Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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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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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
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