Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Every advantage has its tax

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.