Quote #4653
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal...
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Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other...
Quote #25832
Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build...
Quote #34631
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Quote #3464
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions...
Quote #8809
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror,...
Quote #9378
I?m good enough, I?m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in...
Quote #33964
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.