The Tyrant Will Always Find A Pretext

Persuasion Is Better Than Force.

Gratitude Is The Sign Of Noble Souls.

We Should Find Out As Much As Possible About Someone Before Coming Into Conflict With Him.

Pray Do Not Grieve So; But Go And Take A Stone, And Place It In The Hole, And Fancy That The Gold Is Still Lying There. It Will Do You Quite The Same Service; For When The Gold Was There, You Had It Not, As You Did Not Make The Slightest Use Of It.

Every Man Carries Two Bags About Him, One In Front And One Behind, And Both Are Full Of Faults. The Bag In Front Contains His Neighbors' Faults, The One Behind His Own. Hence It Is That Men Do Not See Their Own Faults, But Never Fail To See Those Of Others.