Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.