Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

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.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.