If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

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.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.