To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.