Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

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 weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.