No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

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.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

People say law but they mean wealth.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Stability is not immobility