If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.