truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 9:58 am

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 10:01 am

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 10:11 am

Patience will achieve more than force.
Edmund Burke

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 10:12 am

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Edmund Burke

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 10:16 am

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 10:18 am

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
Ovid

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Tue 20 February 2007 10:20 am

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid