A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

The property of power is to protect.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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.