No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.