In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.