Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.