A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.