I hold it to be

I hold it to be
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
  

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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.
Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.
Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.
Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.