Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

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

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.