To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ✨…

Charles Caleb Colton
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1823). Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
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There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Address … ▶
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied; and this superiority … ▶
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1828). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addre … ▶
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. ✨ Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). L.P., p.480

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1823). Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

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