Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

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

What is well done is done soon enough.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.