Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

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.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

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