The highest pleasure

The highest pleasure
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour
  

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Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.
Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.
Liberation is not deliverance.
Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.
A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.
Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.
Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.
Thereare two sides to every question.
The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.
You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.
The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.