He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.