It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

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

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The comforter's head never aches.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.