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

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

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