Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Saadi

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle

The love of democracy is that of equality.
Charles de Montesquieu

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Clarence Thomas

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
George Bernard Shaw

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.
Lillian Eichler Watson

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Stanley Walker

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Confucius

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Confucius

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
Confucius

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Confucius

The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
Confucius

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.
Jimmy Demaret

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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Necker