Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

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

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

There is no knowledge that is not power.