Thetorment of human

Thetorment of human
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
  

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To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.
There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.
He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.
When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.
There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.
Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.