“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.”
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
