It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

The property of power is to protect.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

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.