Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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

Those who trust us educate us.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Youcan't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come toyou. You have to go to them sometimes.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.