Wizards First Rule:
People Are Stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or they fear to be true.
"People can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it's true."
Wizards Second Rule:
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.
"Sometimes, doing what one thinks is right can cause more harm than good. Violation of this rule can cause anything from discomfort, to disaster, to death."
Wizards Third Rule:
Passion rules reason, for better or for worse.
"Letting your emotions control your reason may cause trouble for yourself and those around you"
Wizards Fourth Rule:
There is magic in sincere forgiveness, the magic to heal. In forgiveness you grant, but more so, in forgiveness you receive.
"Forgiving and being forgiven are powerful elements of healing, not for your body, but your soul. Forgiving others is healthy for you, but being forgiven is even more powerful."
Wizards Fifth Rule:
Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
"People will lie to deceive you from what they truly mean to do. Watching the actions they take will prove their true intentions."
Wizards Sixth Rule:
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
"The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced.", "Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality--it's our basic tool of survival."
Wizards Seventh Rule:
Life is the future, not the past.
"The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices."
Wizards Eighth Rule:
Deserve victory.
"Be justified in your convictions. Be completely committed. Earn what you want and need"
Wizards Ninth Rule:
A contradiction cannot exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.
"To believe in a contradiction is to abdicate your belief in the existence of the world around you and the nature of the things in it, to instead embrace any random impulse that strikes your fancy--to imagine something is real simply because you wish it were. A thing is what it is, it is itself. There can be no contradictions. In reality, contradictions cannot exist. To believe in them you must abandon the most important thing you possess: your rational mind. The wager for such a bargain is your life. In such an exchange, you always lose what you have at stake."
AND FINALLY
Wizards Tenth Rule:
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
"People who for whatever reason don't want to see the truth can be acutely hostile to it and shrill in their denunciation of it. They frequently turn their venomous antagonism on whoever dares to point out that truth ... To those seeking the truth, its a matter of simple, rational, self interest to always keep reality in view. Truth is rooted in reality, after all, not the imagination."
And today my lesson has been I shoulda REALLY LISTEND TO RULES 2,3 and 5...apperantly worryin about people is enough to get them to hate you...see...Passion Rules Reason...Imagination that!
Laid'er days all
