Do not do what you can’t undo, until you’ve considered what you can’t do once you’ve done it.

I might point out to you that no wise man tells all he knows.  And that he who carries tales has little else in his head.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival’s secrets than he knows of yours.  Always deal from a position of power.

It is good to know well a man you are going to kill; it is not good to understand him.

Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.

There’s a difference between thinking an action is wise and doing it.

Slavery spreads, for if it is accepted to take a man's life for amusement, then how much wiser to take it for profit?

But. Here we are, and here is always the place we must start from. Eh?

You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man’s fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man’s whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine.

Sometimes it is easier to pull a knife out of a man than to ask him to forget words you have uttered.

Thinking is not always… comforting.  It is always good, but not always comforting.