The greatest virtue

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

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Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.
The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
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.
To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.