Necessity truns lion into fox.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

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.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

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

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

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