"Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience."

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Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

Francesco Guicciardini

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“Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9
“I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.”

Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1990). “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts”, p.142, Penguin
“Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position,”

Source : "NBC Uses Lewinsky Interview to Silence Talk of Clinton Scandals". www.newsbusters.org. April 18, 2016.
“Wine gives strength to weary men.”
“She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.”
“A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, â€˜Where have they taken Him?â€™”
“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”
“There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.”

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