The desire of

The desire of
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
  

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To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.
A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.
Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable
Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.
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.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.
Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.
Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.