The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONLogic 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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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
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A man’s profundity may keep him from opening on a first interview, and his caution on a second; but I should suspect his emptiness, if he carried on his reserve to a third.
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
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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.
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When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
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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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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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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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Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
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It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
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