In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.