To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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.