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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

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.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.