Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

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.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.