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1. Three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily ture; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
2. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
3. Important principles may and must be flexible.
4. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
5. Debate is the best catalyst of thought.
6. Man is made in such a way that he continually has to define himself and continually escape his own definitions.
7. If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
8. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
9. I sometime wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon is enforcement.
10. We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations–we’re doing everything we can to keep our marriage.
11. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
12. All the great regigions are fund amentally equal. We must have innate respect for other religions as we have for our own.
13. Assertion is not argument, to contradict the statment of an opponent is not proof that you are right.
14. It is a curious fact that in bad days we can vary vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
15. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
16. Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
17. The wisest man preachs no doctrines, he has no scheme.
18. In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substiture rearly equivalent to the real virtue.
19. If we did not something taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcom.
20. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.





