Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

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.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.