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

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.