The average man’

The average man’
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
  

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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
Thereverse side also has a reverse side.
Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.
Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.