Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
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A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
We do not require elaborate training merely in order to refrain from embarking upon intricate trains of inference. Such abstinence is only too easy.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
Dark nail polish is vulgar.