A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e