"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

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"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

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"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself."

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"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

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"No one knows it all. Asking questions about the things that you don't know doesn't make you unintelligent. You don't have a million years on earth to make all the mistakes in the world and learn from them. You can learn from better informed people, and save yourself the headaches that come from making too many avoidable mistakes."

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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

Posterity

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

Circumstance

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

Power

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

Friendship

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."

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"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."

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"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

Courage

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

Responsibility

"Pure truth like pure gold has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves."

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"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

Wisdom