Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A woman has reached reaal women's-lib status when she is the one who forgers the wedding Aniversary