The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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