Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

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

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.