Onemust talk little and listen much.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.