Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.