Successis blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy itwon't come out while you're watching.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

To teach isto learn twice.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!