Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

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

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

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

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

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.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.