The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Only the educated are free.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.