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

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.