| Quotes |
Topic |
| Abuse | It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. |
| Abuse | There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow. |
| Adversity | We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. |
| Adversity | The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. |
| Advice | Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. |
| All About Love | Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. |
| Ancestry | He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another. |
| Argument | To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. |
| Body | This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly. |
| Calamity | Calamity is virtue's opportunity. |
| Cliches and One Liners | Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. |
| Cruelty | All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness. |
| Death | A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. |
| Decisions | If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. |
| Difficulties | Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. |
| Difficulty | Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. |
| Discipline | No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. |
| Fate | Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling. |
| Fate | Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God. |
| Fidelity | It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it. |
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