Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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 better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.