If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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