“The greater danger for most of us is not that
our aim is too high and we miss it, but
that it is too low and we reach it.”
- Michelangelo
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Einstein
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. – Virginia Woolf
Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known. Confucius
tips[1]=’He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.’
tips[2]=’If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.’
tips[3]=’War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other\’s advantage.’
tips[4]=’Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.’
tips[5]=’God creates men, but they choose each other.’
tips[6]=’A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.’
tips[7]=’He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.’
tips[8]=’Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.’
tips[9]=’Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.’
tips[10]=’There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.’
tips[11]=’There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.’
tips[12]=’When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.’
tips[13]=’He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.’
tips[14]=’If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.’
tips[15]=’War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other\’s advantage.’
tips[16]=’Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.’
tips[17]=’God creates men, but they choose each other.’
tips[18]=’A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.’
tips[19]=’He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.’
tips[20]=’Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.’
tips[21]=’Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.’
tips[22]=’There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.’
tips[23]=’There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.’
tips[24]=’When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.’
tips[25]=’He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.’
tips[26]=’If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.’
tips[27]=’War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other\’s advantage.’
tips[28]=’Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.’
tips[29]=’God creates men, but they choose each other.’
tips[30]=’A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.’
tips[31]=’He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.’
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.Machiavelli
“The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.” Vi Putnam“
It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.”
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
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Richard LewisA hypocrite is a person who–but who isn’t?
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Don Marquis
