Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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

Constant repetition carries conviction.

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.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.