True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares