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• An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actio
  he is neither hot nor timid. -- Chesterfield...
• Once at a dinner party when he was a young man, Winston Churchill, who at the time had a moustache, was seated next to an older woman.
  She said to him, "Young man, I care neither for your politics nor for your moustache....
• Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. For herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself
  he has no desire for that of which he feels no want. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...
• Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught.
  He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep....
• No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one.
  ... Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of....
• Bush] wants to know why can't he have initiatives to present to the public.
  -- A GOP strategist, 1992...
• The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right.
  -- Mencius (Meng-tse) (372?-289? BCE)...
• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
  -- Thomas Fulle...
• Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, ii, 14...