There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
From Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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