Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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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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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 hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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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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We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
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He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
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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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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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Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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