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Jean de la Fontaine:

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men’s doing.

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Arthur Schopenhauer:

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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Thomas Aquinas:

Beware of the person of one book.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

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Arnold J. Toynbee:

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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Virgil:

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

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Agatha Christie, in the voice of Hercule Poirot:

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Christie, Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles in a double
volume with Curtain (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975), p. 217

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Friedrich Schiller:

Against stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain.

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Aristotle:

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

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Alan Hawco, in the voice of Jake Doyle:

That’s what family’s for. To drive you cracked.

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Carl Hayden:

Never give your enemies any more reason than they already have to go on hating you.

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Havelock Ellis:

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

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Jody Hamilton, via the Bob Cesca Show After Party, 2020-01-30:

Whenever anyone says, “Calm down,” no one calms down.

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Isaac Watts:

Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

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Roald Amundsen:

Adventure is just bad planning.

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Ethan Allen:

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in such parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue; which is of itself a strong presumption that in the infancy of letters, learning and science, or in the world’s non-age, those who confided in miracles, as a proof of the divine mission of the first promulgators of revelation, were imposed upon by fictitious appearances instead of miracles.

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Edgar Allen Poe:

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

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Michael Weatherly, in the voice of Tony Dinozzo:

If you always do what you’ve always done, then you’ll always get what you always got.

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