The greatest virtue

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

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The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.
Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.
All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.
You make a mountain of a mole-hill.
We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.
Well done is better than well said.
Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.