Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.