Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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.