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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.  
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silenc...  
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankin...  
Concealed talent brings no reputation.  
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.  
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.  
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age ...  
Fools are without number.  
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.  
Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man witho...  
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot e...  
He who allows oppression shares the crime.  
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it ...  
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankin...  
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will h...  
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued b...  
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.  
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what...  
It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to f...  
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the he...  
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has best...  
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crow...  
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood t...  
Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a...  
No one respects a talent that is concealed.  
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.  
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only ...  
Prevention is better than cure.  
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; bu...  
The desire to write grows with writing.  
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mis...  
The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher hi...  
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.  
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblan...  
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some wh...  
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting ho...  
This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most ...  
Time takes away the grief of men.  
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.  
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave ...  
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legac...  
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food a...  
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must a...  
Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.  
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property g...  
Your library is your paradise.