A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Liberation is not deliverance.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.