A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
There is no sin except stupidity.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way while they do it.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
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