Saturday, January 22, 2011

Vividly Vibrant

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles ...
Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell ...

Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream ...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates ...
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become ...
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them ...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself ...

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings ...

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