It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

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

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

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

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.