Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

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

People say law but they mean wealth.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

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

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .