Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Many a man may thank his talent for his rank, but no man has ever been able to return the compliment by thanking his rank for his talent.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.
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