Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
THOMAS MORENor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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