Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

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

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

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

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

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

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.