A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

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

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.