A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.
—Paul Eldridge
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Facts, Learning
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Past and Present, Past
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Jealousy, Envy
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Life
To judge a man’s character by only one of its manifestations is like judging the sea by a jugful of its water.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Character
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Quotations
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Envy, Jealousy
There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Perspective
Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.
—Paul Eldridge
Topics: Epitaphs
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