It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.