“There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.”

“Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”

“A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth”

“The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.”

“To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.”

“People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.”

“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”

“Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.”

“Folded hands may conceal a dagger --Likewise a foe's tears.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Those who have wisdom have all:Fools with all have nothing.”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”