To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes 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.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.