The desire of

The desire of
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
  

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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.
The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.
Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.
First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.