Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.