If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
From Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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