There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

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.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.