If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

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