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Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement? No one knows what he can do till he tries.
When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.