When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

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.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains