Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

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.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.