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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Discord gives a relish to concord.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
Our power is in our ability to decide.
Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.
Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.
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Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
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