Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

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.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.