Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.