If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

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

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.