Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.