Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.