Linux People

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in
spite of what we are.
                -- Victor Hugo

We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same.
                -- Jonathon Swift

We are stronger than our skin of flesh and metal, for we carry and share a
spectrum of suns and lands that lends us legends as we craft our immortality
and interweave our destinies of water and air, leaving shadows that gather
color of their own, until they outshine the substance that cast them.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
                -- La Rochefoucauld

We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the
machinations of the wicked.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
        -- Eric Hoffer

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect
their good judgement.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are
free from great ones.
                -- La Rouchefoucauld

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the
originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has
forgotten its source.
                -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play"

We prefer to speak evil of ourselves rather than not speak of ourselves at all.