Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.