Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Those who trust us educate us.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.