All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind