Learning, the destroyer of

Learning, the destroyer of
Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
  

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You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.
Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.
Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.