The greatest virtue

The greatest virtue
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
  

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Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.
In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour
Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.
Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.
No one lies as much as the indignant do.
Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.