be polite
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.
Anyone can be polite to a king, but it takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.
If you have no money, be polite.