The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Silenceis the mother of truth.