Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

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

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

To teach isto learn twice.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.