Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

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

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.