Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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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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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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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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Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity.
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
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There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
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Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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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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Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
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