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• It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
  -- W. R. Inge...
• It is Maya! Dost thou not know her? Illusion -- dreams -- phantoms.
  But, to the wise, Maya is more. -- Holst, Savitri...
• Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany!
  Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety....
• O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Richard III -- Act v, Sc.
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• The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
  -- Daniel Webste...
• Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Light of Sta...
• O cursed ambition, thou devouring bird, how dost thou from the field of honesty pick every grain of profit or delight, and mock the reaper's toil!
  -- Harvard...
• To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell. -- Ben Frankli
• The world is governed by opinion. -- Thomas Hobbe