You made your bed, now lie in it.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.