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Life only demands from you the strength you posses

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.