More people fail than they succeed. Yet few are trained to cope with failure in good grace, thus compounding the misery.
The Secret of Gurus: Fool people such that they feel honourable.
Sophisticated “believers” politely undermine other people’s religious beliefs; fanatics do this curtly. Who is more honest?
Madness and genius is merely a matter of degrees.
Truth: awesome, painful element of our reason. Naturally, most of us cannot stand it.
Destiny: an excuse for inaction.
An unjust system judges people merely by the work they did; a just system should also consider what they could and didn’t.
Those in command of themselves seldom need approval of others. And those that constantly seek it are seldom confident and secure.
When mobs take the law in their hands either the rulers have consented to this, or have become impotent.
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