"Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"How quickly passes away the glory of this world."

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"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

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"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

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"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."

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"What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

"A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

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"Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself."

"How quickly passes away the glory of this world."

"If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?"

"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver."

"What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer."

"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is."

"No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled."

"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."

"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."