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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Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.
Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.
It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.