Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

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.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.