If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

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

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

You can't unscramble an egg.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.