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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMen 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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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.
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Doubt is the vestibule of faith.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Physicians 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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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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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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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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