Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Duringa negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leavepersonalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities moreobjectively.

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

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

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

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.