Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

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

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.