Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout