The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Usesoft words and hard arguments.