The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.