The greatest virtue

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

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Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.
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.
Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'
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.
The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
A state with defective laws will have defective morals.
Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.