The wise man learns

The wise man learns
The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.
  

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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.
Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.
Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.
Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.
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.
It'sthe repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.