To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

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.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.