Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

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.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.