The mostimportant things

The mostimportant things
The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
  

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Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.
You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.
Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.
One cannot be precise and still be pure.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.