The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.
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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
The universe is wider than our views of it.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.
Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Time makes more converts than reason.
