Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

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.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.