We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.