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.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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.

A half truth is a whole lie.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.