The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.
LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of you...
LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and...
Our successes and failures in life can be traced to how well or how badly we deal with the inevitable conflicts that confront us in society.
No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular...
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure. TACITUS, c. A.D. 55-120
Learn to move fast and adapt or you will be eaten. The best way to avoid this fate is to assume formlessness. No predator alive can attack what it cannot see. OBSERVANCE
Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.
Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.
You cannot repress anger or love, or avoid feeling them, and you should not try.
When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the...
Do not fight them. Instead think of them the way you think of children, or pets, not important enough to affect your mental balance
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
Your new identity will protect you from the world precisely because it is not you; it is a costume you put on and take off. You need not take it personally. And your new identity sets you apart, gives...
Too often we make a separation in our lives—there is work and there is life outside work, where we find real pleasure and fulfillment. Work is often seen as a means for making money so we can enjoy th...
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...
Person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself,
Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.
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