A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

No strength within, no respect without.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

The comforter's head never aches.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

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.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.