Grantgraciously what you

Grantgraciously what you
Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.
  

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Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!
Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.
Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.
If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.
Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.
It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.