Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.