Great Throughts Treasury

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Remember this, that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed I the performance of every act of life.

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.

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Character | Man | Men | Opinion | Rest | Value |

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Walter Bagehot

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

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Character | Influence | Men | Obedience | Opinion | Public | Wisdom | Words | Think |

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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

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Bias NULL

It is better to decide between our enemies than our friends; for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy; but on the other hand, one of your enemies will probably become your friend.

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Better | Character | Enemy | Friend | Will | Friends |

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William Blake

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

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Character | Man | Mind | Opinion |

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

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Richard Baxter

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

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Character | Earth | Expectation | Experience | Heaven | Love | Soul | Expectation | Friends |

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Susan Fenimore Cooper, fully Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accidents than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Character | Events | History | Reason | Wisdom |

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Samuel Butler

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever, or amiable.

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Care | Character | Good | People | Taste | Thought | Thought |

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Robert Collyer

A man's best friends are his ten fingers.

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James Fenimore Cooper

A true history of human events would show a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Accident | Character | Events | History | Reason |

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William Ellery Channing

The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the chief wall of defence around property and life. With the progress of society, this power of opinion is taking the place of arms.

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Character | Judgment | Life | Life | Men | Opinion | Power | Progress | Property | Society | World |

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J. E. Dinger

Three men are my friends - he that loves me, he that hates me and he that is indifferent to me. Who loves me, teaches me tenderness; who hates me, teaches me caution; who is indifferent to me, teaches me self-reliance.

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Caution | Character | Men | Self | Self-reliance | Tenderness | Friends |

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Euripedes NULL

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

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Character | Conscience | Earth | Fear | Man | Money | Necessity | Opinion | Public |

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