All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

You made your bed, now lie in it.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.