"It is great folly to wish to..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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“He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.”
“Few know how to be old.”
“We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.”
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“Withal I did infer your lineaments,Being the right idea of your father,Both in your form and nobleness of mind;Laid open all your victories in Scotland,Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purposeUntouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.”
“To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.”
“Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?”