We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

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

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

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

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

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

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.