The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

The property of power is to protect.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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.