When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.