The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.