To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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 lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

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.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.