A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.