Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

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.

No strength within, no respect without.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.