If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. The Nightingale and the Rose

I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For "many," as they say in the mysteries, "are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,"—meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers. The Trials Of Socrates

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. The Art Of War

“He lived in friendship beside Vasudeva, and sometimes they would exchange words with each other, few and well-considered words. Vasudeva was no friend of words, Siddhartha seldom succeeded in inducing him to speak.” Siddhartha