Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.
Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
So weak thou art that fools thy power despise And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue of teaching ministers to consult the public good of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people of choosing for employment persons qualified to exercise them with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive and confirmed in me the old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for truth.
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