"He who flatters a man is his..." - Quote by Confucius
He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
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“Words are the voice of the heart.”
“These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.”
“The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.”
More on Friendship
“If you go out looking for friends, they'll be scarce. If you go out looking to be one, you'll have all the friends you need.”
“Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out.”
“Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.”
More on Truth
“How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.”
“And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”
“Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.”