Step after step the ladder is ascended

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Buying ischeaper than asking.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.