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- "A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. "
- "Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or ..."
- "By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. "
- "Concealed talent brings no reputation. "
- "Don't give your advice before you are called upon. "
- "Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. "
- "Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the ..."
- "Fools are without number. "
- "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. "
- "Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. "
- "Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. "
- "He who allows oppression shares the crime. "
- "Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it ..."
- "I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free ..."
- "If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will ..."
- "If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by ..."
- "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. "
- "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what ..."
- "It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear ..."
- "It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, ..."
- "Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more ..."
- "Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, ..."
- "Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to ..."
- "Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed ..."
- "No one respects a talent that is concealed. "
- "Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. "
- "Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery ..."
- "Prevention is better than cure. "
- "Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the ..."
- "The desire to write grows with writing. "
- "The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not ..."
- "The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even ..."
- "The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. "
- "The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, ..."
- "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who ..."
- "They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of ..."
- "This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most ..."
- "Time takes away the grief of men. "
- "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. "
- "What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only ..."
- "What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from ..."
