Sweet is pleasure after pain

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.