Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONTaking 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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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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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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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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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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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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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
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Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave
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It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
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Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
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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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As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
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That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.
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