Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

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

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.