Always the dullness

Always the dullness
Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits
  

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There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
Silenceis argument carried out by other means.
Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.
Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man
Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.
Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.
No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.
The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.