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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.