Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
The wisest have the most authority.
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Somebody who doesn't care if they live or die is the most dangerous human being on earth.
Ben Carson's either the angriest person in the world or the calmest.
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
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