The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

The property of power is to protect.

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.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

He whoangers you, conquers you.