Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.