Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

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

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 clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.