The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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!

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.