Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
Malice often takes the garb of truth.
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Time,--the most independent of all things.
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
The more we do, the more we can do.
Dandyism is a species of genius.
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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