That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
most men know what they hate few what they love
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
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.
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other-it is our own.... We may lay in a s...
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until...
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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