Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Example is better than following it.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.