A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books

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With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the...

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the...

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

Love is blind, and greed insatiable

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first

Do not employ handsome servants

Do not employ handsome servants

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood

Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like

Don't consider your reputation and you may do anything you like

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood

Though you live near a forest, do not waste firewood

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

Medicine can only cure curable disease, and then not always

The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame

The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame

A book holds a house of gold

A book holds a house of gold

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject

To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days...

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days...

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.

Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases.

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.

If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference:...

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference:...