Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

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.