No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
From Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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