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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We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.
Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.
Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.
A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.
Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.
If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.
It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.