I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is…

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He who allows oppression shares the crime.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Humility is truth.

Humility is truth.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Fortune favors the audacious

Fortune favors the audacious

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures,...

Prevention is better than cure.

Prevention is better than cure.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to...

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to...

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing...

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing...

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of...

Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of...

Possession is nine tenths of the law

Possession is nine tenths of the law

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts...

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts...