Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

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.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.