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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) I, 18, 1-2 -
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
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Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.
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Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
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