The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

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

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.