Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges