truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 7:59 am

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:00 am

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:01 am

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:04 am

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:06 am

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:08 am

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
Samuel Johnson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Thu 11 January 2007 8:13 am

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson