Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHe 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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There are male as well as female gossips.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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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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Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.
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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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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper’s happiness.
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
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Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.
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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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