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A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. ~La Bruyere, Characters, 1688



There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle. ~G.K. Chesterton



If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes. ~Paige Rense



Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956



From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. ~Mabel Louise Robinson



The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. ~Laplace, Theorie analytique des probabilites, 1820



Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? ~Pierre Troubetzkoy



Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot



Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. ~Walter Rauschenbusch



A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~Maya Angelou



Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. ~Christopher Morley



Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath. ~Dave Barry



Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson



The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. ~Robert S. Lynd



In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer



Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966