Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

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