It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.