You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. – Georges Courteline, La philosophie de Georges Courteline, 1917
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Dont knock your friends. Dont knock your enemies. Dont knock yourself. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. – Edgar Allan Poe