True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Charlie Chaplin said"Life laughs at u when u are unhappy Life smiles at u when u are happy But, Life salutes u when u make others happy"

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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.