A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

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.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.