"A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy."

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift, Lady Martha Giffard (1731). “Some account of the life and writings of Sir William Temple, written by a particular friend [his sister Lady Giffard] Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Miscellanea. Memoirs, the third part, from the peace concluded 1679, to the time of the author's retirement from publick business. Memoirs of what past in Christendom from the war begun 1672, to the peace concluded 1679”, p.305

William Temple

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“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
“There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.”
“I never wanted to express my independence by dressing in a particularly masculine way or appear particularly boyish.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.”
“If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.”
“As a rule, spies don't like dealing with cops. Covert ops are illegal by definition. If they were legal they wouldn't need to be covert.”
“Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.”

Source : "Rene Russo Goes Two For the Money". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. October 7, 2005.
“How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?”

Source : John Corvino (2013). “What's Wrong with Homosexuality?”, p.4, Oxford University Press

"A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy."

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