Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Well done is better than well said.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.