Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.