If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

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

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Much learning does not teach understanding.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.