A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Men still have to be governed by deception.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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