The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

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

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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