Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.