A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

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

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.