A quotation from Shakespeare

HELENA: Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
   Love can transpose to form and dignity.
   Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
   And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
   Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste.
   Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste.
   And therefore is Love said to be a child
   Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, sc. 1, ll. 238ff (1.1.238-245) (1605)

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@zephyrotv@noauthority.social Yeah the guy was armed so think, had the guy lived, the onus would have been on him to prove that the weapon had nothing to do with the ICE agent's firing shots.

Seems very cut+dry, unfortunately. Feel bad for his family they raised him and he's dead coz he wore a handgun to a demonstration #badjudgment

A quotation from Josh Billings

Intelekt without judgement iz what ails about one halff the smart people in this world.
 
[Intellect without judgment is what ails about one half the smart people in this world.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1975-02 “Heliotropes” (1875 ed.)

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A quotation from Orwell

If there is a wrong thing to do, it will be done, infallibly. One has come to believe in that as if it were a law of nature.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Diary Entry (1941-05-18), "First War-Time Diary"

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A quotation from Amiel, Henri-Frédéric:

«
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
»

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A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

«
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues.
 
[C’est une grande misère que de n’avoir pas assez d’esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de jugement pour se taire.]
»

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