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

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

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.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.