If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Nevercut what you can untie.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

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.