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

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

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.