Everyone admires the bold; no one honors the timid.
Friendship and love blind every man to their interests.
The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.
Never be distracted by people’s glamorous portraits of themselves and their lives; search and dig for what really imprisons them.
LAW 46Never Appear Too PerfectAppearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. Envy creates silent enemies. It is smart to occa...
Clearing your head of everything you thought you knew, even your mostcherished ideas, will give you the mental space to be educated by your present experience--the best schoolof all. You will develop...
You must engrave deeply in your mind and never forget: your emotional commitment to what you are doing will be translated into your work. If you go at your work with half a heart, it will show in the...
Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time whenyou need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe...
The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggres...
Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.
Renaissance diplomat and courtier Niccolò Machiavelli wrote, Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.
Be Royal in your Own Fashion: Act like a King to be treated
Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and...
The passive ironic attitude is not cool or romantic, but pathetic and destructive.
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.
Sadness of any sort is also seductive, particularly if it seems deep-rooted, even spiritual, rather than needy or pathetic—it makes people come to you.
Louis XI (1423-1483), the great Spider King of France, had a weakness for astrology. He kept a court astrologer whom he admired, until one day the man predicted that a lady of the court would die with...
Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
Eventually, you will hit upon a particular field, niche, or opportunity that suits you perfectly. You will recognize it when you find it because it will spark that childlike sense of wonder and excite...