Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONFame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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