“The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured”
Konrad Adenauer
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”
“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer”
Charles Caleb Colton
“ Some .. see things that are ... and ask why ? I Dream things that never were ... and ask Why Not ! ”
G.B. Shaw
“To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
Albert Camus
“The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.”
Chamfort
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche