It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
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I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.
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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
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Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
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Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
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Acts 6:5:
This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
(NIV)
And the suggestion pleased the whole assembly, and they selected Stephen, a man full of faith (a strong and welcome belief that Jesus is the Messiah) and full of and controlled by the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte (convert) from Antioch.
(AMP)
And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
(KJV)
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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The world is full of fools and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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Once we have resolved only to see those who will treat us morally and virtuously, reasonably and truthfully, without treating conventions, vanities and ceremonials as anything other than props of polite society, we will have to live more or less on our own.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
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There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.
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As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
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Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
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The headline reads, 'Docs say patients make them prescribe useless antibiotics.' This puts a physician in roughly the same predicament as a serial killer. The latter says, 'Stop me before I kill again, while the former says, 'Stop me before I prescribe again.'
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