Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.
A sage has one advantage; he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
