As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Money is what things run into and people run out of