All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Only the educated are free.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.