Thework will teach you how to do it.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.