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Avarice

Instead of this we have luxury a…

4 Mar , 2011  

Instead of this we have luxury and avarice; public indigence side by side with private opulence; we glorify wealth and pursue idleness; between the worthy and the unworthy we make no distinction; all the prizes of virtue are awarded to ambition. Crispus, Gaius Sallustius

Epithets

Insolence is not logic; epithets…

4 Mar , 2011  

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice. Ingersoll, Robert G.

Innocence

Innocence is always unsuspicious…

4 Mar , 2011  

Innocence is always unsuspicious. Haliburton

Individuality

Independent self people (would b…

4 Mar , 2011  

Independent self people (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future […] (where) people will be defined by their associations. Dewey, John

Happiness

Indeed, man wishes to be happy e…

4 Mar , 2011  

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. St. Augustine

Words

In words, as fashions, the same …

4 Mar , 2011  

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope, Alexander

Adversity

It is a painful thing to look at…

4 Mar , 2011  

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made Sophocles

Caution

It is a good thing to learn caut…

4 Mar , 2011  

It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others. Syrus, Publilius

Human

It disturbs me no more to find m…

4 Mar , 2011  

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. Molière, Jean B.

Legislation

It could probably be shown by fa…

4 Mar , 2011  

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress. Twain, Mark

Beauty

Is there anything in the univers…

4 Mar , 2011  

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web? White, E.B.

Study

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, th…

4 Mar , 2011  

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. Talmud, The