I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.
Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Learn to obey before you command.
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
Poets tell many lies.
No fool can be silent at a feast.
People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.
I feel privileged, to be honest.
If to some my tale seems foolishness I am content that such could count me fool.