Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.