Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

A room without books is a body without soul

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

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.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.