Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him