Everything – Page 52 – A book of aphorisms
Jan 282022
 

All traits influenced by genetics differ across populations, and all traits are influenced by genetics.

Jan 252022
 

When we products of a modern upbringing were children, we spake as children, understood as children, thought as children: and when we became men, nothing changed.

Jan 202022
 

Before you ask if a man practices what he preaches, ask if what he preaches is worth practicing.

Jan 192022
 

Our age, for all its weakness, reigns unchallenged in calumny and vitriol: no Mirabeaus, few Robespierres, and everywhere Marats.

Jan 182022
 

A reader more intelligent than the writer will read more than the writer intended, a reader less intelligent will read less, and a reader equally intelligent will read something entirely different.

Jan 172022
 

Punishment deters less the few who suffer it than the many who fear that they might.