Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

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 fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

To beprepared is half the victory.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.