The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.