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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God has created the world in play.
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.
Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.
There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.
It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains
Malicedrinketh its own poison.