Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.