Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A language is like living skin itself.

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.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.