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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You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.
He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.
Liberation is not deliverance.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.
If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.
Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.
I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.
Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination