After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.
An ancient custom obtains force of nature.
It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
I looked around the store and what I saw was not very encouraging. There were rows and rows of violent toys. . . aisle after aisle of training devices for recreational slaughter. No wonder our world was such a mean and violent place. . . if we teach children that killing is fun, can we really be surprised if now and then someone is smart enough to learn?
There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy. . . not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas. . . during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.
It is love of my fan's that always makes me stand firm.