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Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.



Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.



Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.



Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.



There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.



He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.



Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.



We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats.



Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.



The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.



None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.



A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.



If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to follow that men of weak imaginations are the reverse; in which case we should have some compensation for stupidity. But it unfortunately happens that no dogmatist is more obstinate or less open to conviction than a fool.



Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.



Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.







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