The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.

Steve Maraboli

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Erica Jong

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Winston Churchill

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Kenneth Tynan

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Edward Gibbon

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.

Peter Singer

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.note: possibly associated with Darrow by being attributed to him in Irving Stone's Clarence Darrow for the Defense;, this information is un-substantiated

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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Wilhelm Ostwald