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• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. -- Montaigne
• When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Spring it is cheery...
• Hondo A man ought to do what he thinks is right. --John Wayne
• The coward threatens when he is safe. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
• The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
• Tis the mark of an instructed mind to rest assured with that degree of precision that the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
  -- Aristotle...
• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
  Give him a mask and he will tell the truth. Oscar Wilde...
• For knighthood is not in the feats of war, As for to fight in quarrel right or wrong, But in a cause which truth cannot defe
  He ought himself for to make sure and strong, Just to keep mixt with mercy among...
• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
  -- Thomas Carlyle...