“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”
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“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom”
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others”
“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have”
“What worries you, masters you”
“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
“Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected”
“Nobody is going to let anybody's children play on something that is unsafe. There is just no way”
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided”
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant”
“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
“Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues”
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip”
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.”
“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him”
“The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good”