Great Throughts Treasury

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Hugh Blair

By indulging this fretful temper you alienate those on whose affection much of your comfort depends.

Cheerfulness | Dignity | Enjoyment | Folly | Joy | Mind | Mirth | Pleasure | Religion | Spirit | Struggle | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | World | Happiness |

William Godwin

I thought with unspeakable loathing of those errors, in consequence of which every man is fated to be more or less the tyrant or the slave. I was astonished at the folly of my species, that they did not rise up as one man, and shake off chains so ignominious and misery so unsupportable. So far as related to myself I resolved, and this resolution has never been entirely forgotten by me, to hold myself disengaged from this odious scene, and never fill the part either of the oppressor or the sufferer.

Circumstances | Determination | Mankind |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them.

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