Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

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

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.