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

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him