We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

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 liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

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

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.