A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONNone are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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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 avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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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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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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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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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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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
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It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
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