The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

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

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.