One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

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

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

You'vegot to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, know when to run.

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