"True wisdom knows it must comprise some nonsense as a compromise, lest fools should fail to find it wise."

-- Piet Pieterszoon Hein

#Wise Quotes #Fool Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.”
“Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.”
“Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.”
“I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.”
“Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.”
“The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.”
“I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.”
“For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.”

Source : "Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty".

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