The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

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.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.