Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

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.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.