Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.