Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.