“O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.”

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant.

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.

Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant.

O Contentment, make me rich! for without thee there is no wealth.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.