Renown and repose do not go together.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.