Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

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.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.