If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

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.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Well done is better than well said.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.