All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

People who can't admit they are part of the problem, willnever be part of its solution.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Nevercut what you can untie.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.