Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

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Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.