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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits