Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Use softwords and hard arguments.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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.