Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The way of the superior person is threefold, virtuous they are free from anxieties, wise they are free from perplexities, and bold they are free from fear.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

As every divided kingdom falls so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Wherever there is danger there lurks opportunity, whenever there is opportunity there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

Think not lightly of evil, saying 'It will not come to me.' Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the fool gathering it little by little, fills himself with evil.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

One who drinks the nectar of the Good Law lives happily with a tranquil mind. The wise man ever delights in the Dhamma as realized by the Noble Ones.

To write well express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

A wise man recognizing that the world is but an illusion does not act as if it is real so he escapes the suffering.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. 

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

No matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied.

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

Tempt not a desperate man.

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Even when laws have been written down they ought not always to remain unaltered.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Chi Wen Tzu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Don’t waste your time with explanations, people only hear what they want to hear.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Neither a wise man, nor a brave man, lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

He that's secure is not safe.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

The Devil can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

A hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

A wise man should not reveal his loss of wealth, the vexation of his mind, the misconduct of his own wife, base words spoken by others, and disgrace that has befallen him.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

History makes people wise.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong you'll end wrong.

A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough but you shiver. You are fed yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time the Bastard Time.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols, the gilt comes off in our hands.

Do not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

There is no darkness, but ignorance.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

Sometimes a concept is baffling, not because it is profound, but because it is wrong.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

In nine cases out of ten a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

And whether you're an honest man or whether you're a thief depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Of neighborhoods benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who, when he had the choice, does not settle in benevolence.

Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Everything popular is wrong.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair, the rest is in the hands of God.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems in my opinion to characterize our age.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking, is to be conscious of out own existence.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

What's done can't be undone.

Straightforwardness without the rules of propriety becomes rudeness.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

A whole is that which has beginning middle and end.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

It is not fit that every man should travel, it makes a wise man better and a fool worse.

The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

So, what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Indeed I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Madness is badness of spirit when one seeks profit from all sources.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

A principle is the expression of perfection and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!