"One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and…" — Jean de La Bruyère

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking

A man can die but once.

Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the people

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