A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

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