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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

When u were born, u were crying and everyone round u was smiling.. Live ur life so that when u die, u're the one who is smiling and everyone round u is crying..

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

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.