Pleasant words are the food of love.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Genius is a long impatience.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Every advantage has its tax

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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