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Mar 312016
To plant an idea in a man’s mind, persuade him not that it is true but that it is his own.
Mar 302016
It would be a dull world that conformed to our ideas about it.
Mar 292016
Opportunity, legal status, result — we are all apparently obliged to believe in the equality of something.
Mar 282016
Clarity tends to banality, and obscurity tends to nonsense.
Mar 252016
Humility has the arrogance to proselytize; arrogance has the humility not to.
Mar 242016
A great part of writing is the audacity to say “men are” when you mean “I am.”
Mar 232016
The opposite of hypocrisy is overconfidence.
Mar 222016
War puts the pacific virtues to use, but peace can do nothing with the martial ones.
Mar 212016
The belief that one is entirely self-created has been possible only in a very few times and places. It is an accident of circumstance.