Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

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

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

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.

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.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.