Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Example is better than following it.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.