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

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Stability is not immobility

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

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.