If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

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

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid