People say law but they mean wealth.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

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

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.