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

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

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

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.