Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.