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- To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions…
- Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other…
- It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what…
- There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe…
- This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.
- How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the…
- Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what…
- In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
- Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- Like an image in a dream the world is troubled by love, hatred, and other poisons. So long as the dream lasts, the image appears…
- Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.
- A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
- Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom…
- It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring…
- [C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
- There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose…
- Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses…
- Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour