No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

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.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends