The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.