The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching. Charles Caleb Colton View this quote
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Charles Caleb Colton
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain. Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. Charles Caleb Colton
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. Charles Caleb Colton
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. Charles Caleb Colton
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. Charles Caleb Colton
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Charles Caleb Colton
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. Charles Caleb Colton
British priest and writer
January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832
