Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.