True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

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.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

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.