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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have
of it. It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one
who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The
other is mere business. You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one
phrase: make use of suffering. Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I
meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are
needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must
have a sense of success in it. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. |