The present is never a happy state to any being

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

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.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.