If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains