Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.