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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.