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I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.

Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.