The flowers of life

The flowers of life
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
  

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Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.
A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.
Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.
There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.