Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.