Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

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.

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

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares