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

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

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

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.