By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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