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 COLTONConstant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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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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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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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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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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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Logic 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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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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