True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe 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.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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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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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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