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To mourn without measure is folly, and not to mourn at all is insensibility.
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102
A good conscience fears no witnesses, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even of solitude.
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if you see that anything is within man's power, and part of his proper work, conclude that you also may attain to it
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If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.
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The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.
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Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.
Margaret Chase Smithverified·Declaration of Conscience (remarks in the United States Senate)·June 1, 1950
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Look back on these forebodings, not hastily but reluctantly made, and see how in every instance they have completely failed.
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We have created a fictitious ceiling, a roof, to our expectations of ourselves, a limit — where we think it’s all too good to be true.
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Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.
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Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”
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It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.
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They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.
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Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.
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Moreover men commonly deceive themselves in respect of the love which they imagine others bear them, nor can ever be sure of it until they have put it to the proof.
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The prince, therefore, who would guard himself against plots, ought more to fear those men to whom he has been too indulgent, than those to whom he has done great wrongs.
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a prince should entrust his friends with so much authority only as leaves a certain interval between his position and theirs
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Wherefore the nature of a multitude is no more to be blamed than the nature of princes, since both equally err when they can do so without regard to consequences.
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Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.
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princes ought to leave affairs of reproach to the management of others, and keep those of grace in their own hands
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Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.
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A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.
122
Nevertheless, he who has relied least on fortune is established the strongest.
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases.
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Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.verified·Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (dissenting)·November 10, 1919