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Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

The property of power is to protect.

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.