When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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 clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.