Caution is the path to mediocrity.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.