Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring.
Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.
Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example, paying a skilled construction worker as a general laborer.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
