Epictetus

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

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Henry Havelock Ellis

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

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Timothy Leary

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

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Jerry Coleman

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

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John Adams

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.

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John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

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Ellis Peters

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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