Sweet is pleasure after pain

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Genius is a long impatience.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.