A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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

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