Pain is the outcome of sin.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.