The average man’

The average man’
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
  

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.
Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.
All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
Discord gives a relish to concord.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.
Necessity truns lion into fox.
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.