Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.
Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
You cannot be to wedded to your past accomplishments.
There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times.
I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.
Strangers are contemporary posterity. [Fr. , Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine. ]