Where two discourse, if the anger of one rises, he is the wise man who lets the contest fall.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".

To please the many is to displease the wise.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.