book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer

Conduct

Those who keep sowing wild oats generously will not be sure that the entire crop is theirs.
Only a boss or a close relation takes sudden umbrage, because the recipient is financially or emotionally susceptible.
Disappointment upsets, but ingratitude hurts.
Crime is a short cut to acquisition. The problem arises, when the wrongdoer does not get away with it. But the overly ambitious still try.
Excessive gravity invites levity.
Start praising everybody; you will end up pleasing nobody.
Posthumous memoirs have bees in their bonnets.
A harmless patient in unbearable pain suffering from terminal cancer, can peacefully die in anesthesia and put an end to her excruciating torture but this is not legally permissible except for the condemned criminals who are unwilling to die in execution by lethal injection.
Even a taciturn will talk, when her ego is hurt.
The jealous denigrate qualities in others, which they do not themselves possess.
An egoist will only talk about the subjects in which he plays a prominent part.
Those who gamble cannot grumble.
I hold him in high opinion oflow mentality.
A pragmatist is nice to those who really matter to her and lets them know it subtly.
Virtue is a vice, if you brag about yours.
Indignation is justified anger, but it is your justification.
Melancholy and indignation are both pleasing, one in self-indulgence and the other in sclf-righteousness .
It is deception, when one is betrayed by a person one has no reason to disbelieve.
A discrete person will not rule out disappointment even with the best of hopes.
Persons with pretensions to piety think they have faultless character to throw stones upon others.
It is all right to be wrong, but it is not all right to be told that one is wrong.
Virtue cannot keep up, if vice accompanies it.
Self-interest is asking for what one deserves. Selfishness is snatching other’s due share.
Everyone dislikes someone, whether personally known or not. Life is more fun this way.
In adversity, your faults will attract the people towards you to berate, but you can repel them with composed fortitude.
Virtue is vapidand vice is exhilarating, but its results are scaring.
Reputation lasts, if behaviour is consistent.
Secret of success in life is to substitute “I” for “you”.
Patience is tolerance of the curable. Tolerance of the incorrigible is surrender to the destiny.
Morbid ideas end in sordid behaviour.
Hallucination is inflammation of imagination.
An orator can reason a mob into or out of any issue at will.
Indulgence in fancy is the last refuge of losers.
Censure is the venom that jealousy pours on prominence .
Discussion is a cool conversation. Controversy is the heated exchange of views and dispute is a raging difference of opinion.
Always remember to tamper your temper.
If I cannot recall the name of a long unseen acquaintance. I give him a wide berth, ifl can, to avoid embarrassment of greetings .
You can imagine the depths of pain and the intensity ofloss, if the helpless mourner invokes the curses that the perpetrator of injustice may weep the tears of blood, be infested with worms in his body, die of cancer and have his body cut into pieces and fed to the mad dogs.
Nodding in silence is either to avoid showing lack of interest or revealing ignorance, regarding the subject of conversation.
Best exposition of the principles of life is to live upto them.
When it comes to pedigree, some aspirants to social positions formulate their own ancestors.
Corruption also prospers on the necessity that honesty does not pay for the standard education of children.
No sound argument can cut ice with an ass.
The story of genesis is a drama of dogma with a hero, a heroin and a villain, as dramatic personae and the audience of one.
To think in public what public thinks and to do exactly its opposite in private is either compromise or hypocrisy, depending upon the need for security or quest of opportunity. This behaviour is often observed in small religious minorities heavily outnumbered by a people of different religion, amongst whom they live.
If a person walks briskly straight with posture erect, neck stiff, proud eyes and empty mind, he is mostly connected with military in higher cadre .
The able and deserving are relegated to obscurity in the times of hollowness of self-projection and publicity.
Affluence in isolation, a consequence of modem fragmented society, bereft of human warmth, degrades into oppressive loneliness and desperate boredom .
The proseperous grumble at their troubles to word off the scent of jealousy .
Insolence is the salt of wit.

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