Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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.

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

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.