Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.