Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [421-440] of 632 Proverbs quotesProverbs QuotesProverbs Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)~ Ovid When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine He who dares not offend cannot be honest.~ Thomas Paine Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.~ Thomas Paine The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.~ Alan Paton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.~ General George S. Patton, Jr. Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.~ General George S. Patton, Jr. To know the world one must construct it.~ Cesare Pavese Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.~ J. H. Payne Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.~ M. Scott Peck A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.~ William Penn To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.~ William Penn Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases? [Lat., An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam Cui licet, ut voluit?]~ Persius A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.~ Francis Picabia Do not expect justice where might is right.~ Plato Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.~ Plato Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.~ Plato Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.~ Plato Only the dead have seen the end of war.~ Plato Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print