One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

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.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Suspicion begets suspicion.