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This is no time to make new enemies.

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.

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The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

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If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.

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Perfect is the enemy of good.

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We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

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The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

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I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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We cannot wish for that we know not.

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Fame is a heavy burden.

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I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

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Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

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Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

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Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?

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To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

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Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts’ effects, so as to defraud their creditors.

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In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other, Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

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