Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

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.

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

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

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