The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

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.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.