Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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

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

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

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.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.