Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Onemust talk little and listen much.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.