Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that decei

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.