A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.