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" Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed. "

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" I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. "

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" It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. "

" Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. "

" War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. "

" By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. "

" Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. "

" Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's. "

" Your library is your paradise. "

" Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? "

" When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. "

" Don't give your advice before you are called upon. "

" Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. "

" The desire to write grows with writing. "

" In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. "

" Fools are without number. "

" The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. "

" Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. "

" Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. "

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" He who allows oppression shares the crime. "

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" It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. "

" Humility is truth. "

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" There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. "

" Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. "

" It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. "

" Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. "

" What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? "

" Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. "

" Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. "

" A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. "

" The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war. "