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Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

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.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.