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- Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Sohrab and Rustum,' 1853
- The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Literature and Dogma,' preface to 1883 edition, last words
- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
- Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
- Austin O'Malley
- The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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