Some people suffer in silence louder than others

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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.