Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

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

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government