Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.