Habit: the shackles of the free

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

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.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.