If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

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

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol