A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.