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Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
Just vengeance does not call for punishment.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women read more
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that read more
Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Success has made failures of many men.
Success has made failures of many men.
