Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.