“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation”
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“To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation”
“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe”
“Ambition and suspicion always go together”
“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones”
“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle”
“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”
“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.”
“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss”
“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye”
“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression”
“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins”
“Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others”
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others”
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think”
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”
“There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad”
“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative”
“A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass”
“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach”