A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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