Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.