Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

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.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.