Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.