The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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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.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Only the educated are free.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.