Friendship Is Not To Be Sought For

Your Enemies Can Kill You, But Only Your Friends Can Hurt You.

It Is Of No Avail To Know What Is About To Happen; For It Is A Sad Thing To Be Grieved When Grief Can Do No Good.

If You Possess A Library And A Garden, You Have Everything You Need. (translation From The French) Si Vous Possedez Une Bibliotheque Et Un Jardin, Vous Avez Tout Ce Qu'il Vous Faut.

They Who Say That We Should Love Our Fellow-citizens But Not Foreigners, Destroy The Universal Brotherhood Of Mankind, With Which Benevolence And Justice Would Perish Forever.

All Men Have A Feeling, That They Would Rather You Told Them A Civil Lie Than Give Them A Point Blank Refusal.... If You Make A Promise, The Thing Is Still Uncertain, Depends On A Future Day, And Concerns But Few People; But If You Refuse You Alienate People To A Certainty And At Once, And Many People Too.