Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.