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“All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.”

Ifs Perfect Secret Too Much Dangerous Ought Circumstances Occasions Not Perfect All Occasions

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.”

Men Mean Has Beens Country Courses Causes Secret Issues Wonderful Ought Conscience Innovation Violent Kingdoms Pernicious

Author:Roger Williams

“Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.”

Men Secret Ought Shame Every Man Vanity Folly

Book:Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

Source: Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political

“All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.”

Ifs Thinking Men Littles Said Secret Too Much Dangerous Ought Safe Absolutes Occasions

Author:Francis Beaumont

“One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.”

Ifs Secret Family Ought Spring Surprise

Author:Tove Jansson

“Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

“The science of numbers ought to be preferred as an acquisition before all others, because of its necessity and because of the great secrets and other mysteries which there are in the properties of numbers. All sciences partake of it, and it has need of none.”

Needs Numbers Secret Mystery Ought Property Acquisition

Author:Boethius

“The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.”

Men Giving Doe Evil Secret Virtue Ought Seasons Mark Adversity Worthy Good Man Manifest Forsake

Author:Bhartrhari

“All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.”

Secret Ought Register Kept Secrets

Book:The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

“If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.”

Ifs Should Desire Secret Accepting Share Position Ought Raises Intimate

Book:The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1

Source: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”

Heart May Earth Wish Secret Laughing Air Havens Ought Summer Rain Welcome Therapy Unconscious Summer Rain

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.”

Thinking Art Artist Secret Wonder Hell Ought Art Is Photographer Not Sure

Author:Todd Walker