When work is pleasure, life is joy.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.