Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

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.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

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

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.