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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
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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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A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
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When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
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When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness but we ought rather to suspect our own.
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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference, which is the most common by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.
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We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves it is civil war.
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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
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Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.
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