Common sense isn't.
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| Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. |
| ~ Plutarch, Roman Apophthegms. Cicero. ~ |
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| A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can." |
| ~ Plutarch, Remarkable Speeches. ~ |
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| When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. |
| ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors. ~ |
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| Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 5. ~ |
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| Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,-old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Apothegms. No. 97. ~ |
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| Oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and the higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 9, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Spoken by Father Mapple. ~ |
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| Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. If in order to elude the anxious question: "What would life be?" one must, like the donkey, feed on the roses of illusion, then the absurd mind, rather than resigning itself to falsehood, prefers to adopt fearlessly Kierkegaard's reply: "despair." Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, An Absurd Reasoning, Philosophical Suicide, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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