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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

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

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.