Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Only few men think, but all have opinions.