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

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

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

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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.