510. The journey to the final results is usually long and painful.

- Sujit Mukerji

509. He who flees at the right time can fight again.

- Marcus Trentius Varro

508. Better slip with foot than tongue.

- Ben Franklin

507. When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.

506. When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

- Confucious

505. When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

- Winston S Churchill

504. You can't make bricks without straw.

503. It is wise not to seek a secret and honest not to reveal it.

- Ben Franklin

502. Truth can pass through three stages:

1. It can be ridiculed;

2. It can be violently opposed;

3. And, finally, it can be/is accepted as being self-evident.

501. Just because everybody's doing something, doesn't mean it's right.

500. The sun can’t see what is in the shadows. So, the most powerful also has some limitations. Certain facts stay hidden, even from the most powerful, until they are dug out. One at the top can’t see the goings-on at the grass-root level. To know, one has to come down.

- Sujit Mukerji

499. The wise do as much as they should, not as much as they can.

498. The errors of a wise man make your rule rather than the perfections of a fool.

- William Blake

497. The wise understand by themselves; fools follow the reports of others.

496. Justice is truth in action.

- Benjamin Disraeli

495. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

494. Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hands with a grip that kills it.

- Rabindranath Tagore

493. Wisdom is easy to carry but difficult to gather.

492. Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.

491. A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. 

- Virgin Islander