If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

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

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.