Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.