The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

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.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

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

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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.