When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

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

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.