We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him