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He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
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Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
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The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
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Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.
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Most men know what they hate, few what they love.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
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Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
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