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

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

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

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

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.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.