To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Only the educated are free.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

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