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A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men. - [Brotherhood] A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. - [War] Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth. - [Truth] An easygoing person is probably more accessible to the realization of eternity--the endless flow of life and death--than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous. - [Frivolity] Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself. - [Want] Creativity is discontent translated into arts. - [Creativity] Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth. - [Truth] Facts are counterrevolutionary. - [Facts] Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. - [Ignorance] How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. - [Death] In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. - [Fear] It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. - [Evil] It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. - [Imitation] Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. - [Weariness] Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. - [Power] Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. - [Hatred] Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. - [Retribution] Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. - [Rudeness] Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - [Rudeness] Successful action tends to become an end in itself. - [Success] The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. - [Freedom] The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. - [Dictatorship] The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. - [Blessings] The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. - [Leaders] The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. - [Excellence] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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