If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.