I hold it to be

I hold it to be
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
  

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God has created the world in play.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.
Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.
It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.
Buying ischeaper than asking.
The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
A man's ruin lies in his tongue.
Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.
Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola