It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
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Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
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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.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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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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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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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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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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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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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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