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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story read more
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
What you get free costs too much.
What you get free costs too much.
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as read more
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.
The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts,
is a power behind the eye.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes
of his understanding.
But when Fate destines one to ruin it begins by blinding the eyes
of his understanding.
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, read more
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny
They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi read more
They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]
