Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

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.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.