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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those w...more

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We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom.

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No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling her...more

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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

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...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I think, fallout that they would not much take with co...more

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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

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Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by...more

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Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.