It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

He understands badly who listens badly.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.