A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.