Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

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.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.