You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time you have to have courage.

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

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