Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.