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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The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.
Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.
Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.
People say law but they mean wealth.
Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.
It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.
Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.