If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

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.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Faith is continuation of reason.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.