There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.