I hold it to be

I hold it to be
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
  

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Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.
Suspicion begets suspicion.
People loan their trust, they don't give it.
What is well done is done soon enough.
The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Life without the Courage is death for slavery.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.
Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.
It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.
Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise