It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

As long as there is life there is danger.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.