No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONPhysicians 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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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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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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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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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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There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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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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The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
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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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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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