There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

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.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-voilent structure of society.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.