He understands badly who listens badly.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

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

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Example is better than following it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

To teach isto learn twice.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.