Bythree methods

Bythree methods
Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.
  

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Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
Old fools are more foolish than you ones.
Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.
Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.
You make a mountain of a mole-hill.
Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.