If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

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

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

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