He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

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.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A room without books is a body without soul

Use softwords and hard arguments.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.