One of the lessons

One of the lessons
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
  

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There is much more learning than knowing in the world.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Nevermistake silence for agreement.
A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.
Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
The art of life is the avoiding of pain.