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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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Men 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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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
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Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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