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- There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
- The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
- Jacques Bossuet (1627 - 1704)
- When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
- Paul De Gondi
- Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
- Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
- Don Wood
- Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, when honour and affection fail.
- William Lloyd
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