The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

You made your bed, now lie in 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.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.