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• Depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
  He only who acts conscientiously towards himself will act so towards others, and vice versa....
• He who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
  -- Lavate...
• He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent...Loudness is impotence.
  -- Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801) "Aphorisms on Man" (c.1788)...
• How many theoretical physicists -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  If you want to know how many, you can observe them as they come in the door....
• An abstract term is like a valise with a false bottom, you may put in it what ideas you please, and take them out again, without being observed.
• He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke
  and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its ca...
• Without love and trust all you can be in life is alone.
• Who seeks a friend without faults dies alone. Turkish Proverb
• He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.
  -- Lavate...