Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

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.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.