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Age of Enlightenment3 quotes
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare. — Samuel Johnson · 1778Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own. — Jonathan Swift · 1704O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'its the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them. — Frances Burney · 1796Classical antiquity3 quotes
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BCThe guest will judge better of a feast than a cook. — Aristotle · 350 BCThere is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. — Polybius · 118 BCColonial America3 quotes
Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment. — Benjamin Franklin · 1745E’er you remark another’s sin, bid your own conscience look within. — Benjamin Franklin · 1741Search others for their Virtues, thyself for thy Vices. — Benjamin Franklin · 1738