Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.