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

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

When weblame, we give away our power.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.