Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
If you have performed an act of great and disinterested virtue, conceal it; if you publish it, you will neither be believed here, nor rewarded hereafter.
Some have wondered, that disputes about opinions should so often end in personalities; but the fact is, that such disputes begin with personalities, for our opinions are a part of ourselves.
Unity of opinion, abstractedly considered, is neither desirable, nor a good ... for men may be all agreed in error, and in that case unanimity is an evil.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.