Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.