“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.”
William Blackstone
“The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“The sunlight flashes off your windshield,and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin--and vanish around a curve in this whipof a road we can't help traveling together.”
William Collins
“Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire”
Antoine Lavoisier
“Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns”
John Maurice Clark
