For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLogic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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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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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse–a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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