One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.
Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.
Genius is a long impatience.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
A man sits as many risks as he runs.