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Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

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.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

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

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.