One of my favourite lines form Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People": > You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lo

One of my favourite lines form Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People": > You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it I also love this more general one from Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: > A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, "And why were such things made in the world?"