Conflictis the gadfly

Conflictis the gadfly
Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
  

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Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.
No strength within, no respect without.
Themost prepared are the most dedicated.
All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.
Dig a well before you are thirsty.
Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.
I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.
The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.
The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.
Necessity truns lion into fox.
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.
The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.