What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

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.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.