The proverb of the evening...

"There will always be people looking to knock you out of the way, just so they can try and grab a little bit of what they perceive as your proverbial spotlight." - Unknown

A Sunday proverb and advice from one of the greatest minds and talents of all time...
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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Leonardo Da Vinci

Confucius warns...

"Once they stop talking to you, then they usually start talking about you."

"I have learned to despise all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than deceit and treachery." - Julius Caesar

“The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.” – John Mark Green

"We don't have to do a single thing. They'll do it for us. The acidity of their own words will eventually erode their tongues."... The Other Guy

Confucius say...

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same."

Don Calogero advises...

"People tend to trust their eyes above all else. But that too is deceptive, because most people only see what they wish to see, what they're told is there, or what they believe they should see...not what is necessarily really there."

Confucius say...

"Feel sorry for envious and jealous people, because they're actually feeble-minded and very weak of character. These types of people carry envy and hatred for others they view as being better than them and more accomplished in their goals, and living lives they only wish they themselves could live."

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid" - Benjamin Franklin

"The Other Guy" advises...

"Se sputi in cielo, ritornerà' in faccia!"

...."If you spit into the sky, it will come back to hit you in the face."

Confucius say...

"A false friend who sneaks up and stabs you in the back, is far worse than an acknowledged enemy who slaps you directly in the face."

Confucius say….

“Many a feeble-minded adult son, will sometimes master the art of ‘weaponized incompetence’ in order to mask his life’s failures and disappointments.”

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second-rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland

Confucius say…

“A wise and productive son makes a glad and proud father. But an incompetent one brings only constant embarrassment to his father and sorrow to his mother”

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - The Bible

“Develop success from failures...Used properly, discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to future success.” —Dale Carnegie

Confucius say...

"Don't engage ignorant, jealous people. Instead, just realize what they are, and then discard these clowns like the trash they are!"

If you bother to stop for a spilt second and gauge it, the rhythm is actually quite comical here.

This is very apropos for this evening.
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Confucius say...

"Feel sorry for envious, jealous people. Because they are feeble-minded and weak of character. They hate and envy others they view as being better than them, accomplishing things they only wish they could achieve in life."

"It takes two years to learn how to speak and sixty years for some to learn how to keep quiet!" --- Ernest Hemingway


Lol. You can say that again!... Are you listening, Shiny? Pay attention!

Confucius say...

“Success is getting what you want. But true happiness is wanting and accepting what you get.”

"Some people are just a special kind of stupid." - unknown

Confucius say...

"All trust involves some type of vulnerability or risk, and nothing would count as trust, if there were not too the alternate possibility of betrayal."

When you walk into a room and don't spot the sucker, you're the sucker :-(

Our very own resident man of respect, Don Calogero, offers up some very wise words this evening...This is a rare and ancient Sicilian saying that was taught to young picciotto on their way up....
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"When questioned, always be cautious. Imagine a Stiletto is pointed at your throat. If you open your mouth, the dagger cuts you...but keep your mouth shut, and you'll survive unscathed."


...Wise words, that the wiser mafiosi have been taught and live by!

“Fraud does, in truth, recoil upon the fraudulent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.” - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." - Aeschylus

Confucius say...
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"Be careful as you go, because it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.” –

. This so true. Many want to be at the top of the mountain but the fall is quick and devastating. Try to ficus on the good things you have, it’s goid to strive for bigger things but don’t make it consume you