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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHuman foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.
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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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Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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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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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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