Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.