In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

All thingsat first appear difficult.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

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.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.