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Pierre Charron
The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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Dr. Smiley Blanton
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
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Blaise Pascal
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
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Leo Rosten
Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.
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Joseph Priestly
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
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Alexander Hamilton
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.
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Francois Rabelais
Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
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Mark Twain
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
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Dick Cavett
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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