Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

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

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

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.