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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English essayist, poet, & politician

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.


Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.


True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.


What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.