History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

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.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.