There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Habit: the shackles of the free

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.