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«I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.»
«Be tender towards the fault of others, be strict towards your own.»
«The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.»
«Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.»
«Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.»
«I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.»
«I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits that strict justice.»
«The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.»
«I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man»
«A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.»