Nothing astonishes

Nothing astonishes
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
  

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Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.
A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.
Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.
I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:
Life only demands from you the strength you posses
It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.