The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.