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"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men."
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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
"Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion."
"If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!"
"Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."
"There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him."
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus."
"Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately."
"Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted."
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
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