The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Well done is better than well said.
A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.
Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.
The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.
Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.
Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.