A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.