Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

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.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.