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

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.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

As a final incentive before giving up a

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

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