Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONSuicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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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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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Happiness leads none of us by the same route.
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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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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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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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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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Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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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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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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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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