Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

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

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.