The greatest virtue

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

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Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".
As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.
It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.
Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.
Compromise.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.