Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

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.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

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

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.