Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

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

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.