Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Freedom can only be real if it is freedom for those think differently.