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Vigilance is the key. Observation is the lock. Utilize both to reveal the true motives of someone’s heart. Find the desire that secretly throbs within every breast, and you know how to master the moment.
Five enemies of peace inhabit us—avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride. If these were to be banished, we should enjoy perpetual peace.
It is not easy to tame one’s mind. Very few of us can manage it, even when taught.
If only they’d understand that the power that shaped the stars, the brightness of the moon, and the very earth upon which we tread is waiting to reveal to them the deepest secrets of their most enduring convictions, mingled with ardent emotion. A pauper could inherit a palace if only they thought and desired it enough. Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Every creature is part of a hierarchy.”
“It is more honorable, my dear, to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.”
“To know nothing is the happiest life.” Knowledge is always a sword with two edges. It cuts away falsehood but reveals hypocrisy.
‘We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt our feelings.’
Sooner or later, little sister, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
“We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would hurt our feelings,”
But the learned, the powerful, and the strong won’t change until they have to. The humble, the meek, the patient, the persevering—they are the ones who get things done.
‘I send you forth as a sheep in the midst of wolves. Be as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove.
Mícheál watched as his words sank deep. The best way to motivate an ambitious person was to torment them with a lack of approval.
