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.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.