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

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

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.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.